Manage Your Job Search

Searching for a job is a big, complex, and scary prospect. There are so many things to do, so many choices to make. Where do you start? How do you keep track of it all?

Treat your job hunt like the project it is. Using proven project management techniques that allow you to create a visual system, you’ll be able to increase your productivity, track your progress, evaluate your work, gain feedback, and throw out what doesn’t work while building on your successes. Take control of the most important project you’ll ever work on: finding fulfilling work.

You’re looking for a job. Maybe you’ve just graduated from college. Maybe you’ve been laid off. Or, maybe you’ve decided that it’s time for a career change. Maybe you want a better job. You might even have a better or different reason than the ones I’ve listed here.

Congratulations!

It’s exciting and scary and unpredictable and overwhelming. If you are anything like me, you can be optimistic one moment, pessimistic the next. You can think you have it “all set” and then your stack of company brochures slides off the table onto the floor and you think, “Oh boy, I do not have anything together.”

And, because it’s all of those things, and your emotions fly up and down, you just might need some help to find that emotional balance and intellectual focus to stay on track with your job search.

I’ve hired or consulted on hiring hundreds of people. I’ve trained thousands of people all over the world about how to hire. I’ve written two books about hiring. The most recent is Hiring Geeks That Fit. Many people think that finding a job is the inverse of hiring. It’s not.

Finding a job is dependent on other people. It is an emergent project, where you cannot predict the end date. You create opportunities and take advantage of serendipity.

If you are looking for a job, this book will help you create your system for finding a job. Then, with your system in place, you can iterate on deciding what job to look for, what your résumé should look like, what companies to target, how to interview, and how to get feedback on everything.

This book will help you.

Your job: Find fulfilling work.

My job: Show you a system that works.

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